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Oct. 5th, 2004 10:27 amНедавняя статья Наоми Кляйн в Harper's о “реконструкции” Ирака:
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P.S. Наоми Кляйн несколько вводит народ в заблуждение, не делая различий между неоконами и неолибералами. Экономический бум как следствие laissez-faire -- это конёк именно неолибералов, у неоконов же отношение к свободному рынку скорее гегельянское. Неоконы старательно озвучивали теорию превентивной войны, но, когда пришло время, их оттёрли ставленники военно-промышленного комплекса и транснациональных корпораций. Именно они и взялись за тотальную приватизацию Ирака.
The honey theory of Iraqi reconstruction stems from the most cherished belief of the war’s ideological architects: that greed is good. Not good just for them and their friends but good for humanity, and certainly good for Iraqis. Greed creates profit, which creates growth, which creates jobs and products and services and everything else anyone could possibly need or want. The role of good government, then, is to create the optimal conditions for corporations to pursue their bottomless greed, so that they in turn can meet the needs of the society. The problem is that governments, even neoconservative governments, rarely get the chance to prove their sacred theory right: despite their enormous ideological advances, even George Bush’s Republicans are, in their own minds, perennially sabotaged by meddling Democrats, intractable unions, and alarmist environmentalists.Сволочи! Место всех неолиберальных ублюдков, поклонников Айн Рэнд и Милтона Фридмана, “чикагских мальчиков”, всех этих дряблых желеподобных теоретиков “свободного рынка”, монетаристов и сторонников laissez-faire -- на нюрнбергской виселице. Этим мразям мало было людоедского режима Пиночета, им мало разграбления России. Теперь они слетелись, как стервятники, на Ирак. Причём на этот раз они поспешили элиминировать посредникa в лице МВФ и обратились непосредственно к транснациональным корпорациям. Вот ещё из статьи:
Iraq was going to change all that. In one place on Earth, the theory would finally be put into practice in its most perfect and uncompromised form. A country of 25 million would not be rebuilt as it was before the war; it would be erased, disappeared. In its place would spring forth a gleaming showroom for laissez-faire economics, a utopia such as the world had never seen. Every policy that liberates multinational corporations to pursue their quest for profit would be put into place: a shrunken state, a flexible workforce, open borders, minimal taxes, no tariffs, no ownership restrictions. The people of Iraq would, of course, have to endure some short-term pain: assets, previously owned by the state, would have to be given up to create new opportunities for growth and investment. Jobs would have to be lost and, as foreign products flooded across the border, local businesses and family farms would, unfortunately, be unable to compete. But to the authors of this plan, these would be small prices to pay for the economic boom that would surely explode once the proper conditions were in place, a boom so powerful the country would practically rebuild itself.
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Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate and former chief economist at the World Bank, describes Bremer’s reforms as “an even more radical form of shock therapy than pursued in the former Soviet world."
That autumn was awash in “rebuilding Iraq” trade shows, in Washington, London, Madrid, and Amman. The Economist described Iraq under Bremer as “a capitalist dream,” and a flurry of new consulting firms were launched promising to help companies get access to the Iraqi market, their boards of directors stacked with well-connected Republicans. The most prominent was New Bridge Strategies, started by Joe Allbaugh, former Bush-Cheney campaign manager. “Getting the rights to distribute Procter & Gamble products can be a gold mine,” one of the company’s partners enthused. “One well-stocked 7-Eleven could knock out thirty Iraqi stores; a Wal-Mart could take over the country.”Сколько раз ты встретишь неолиберала, столько раз его и убей.
Нам срочно нужен Председатель Мао! Пусть растёт 1000 цветов!
P.S. Наоми Кляйн несколько вводит народ в заблуждение, не делая различий между неоконами и неолибералами. Экономический бум как следствие laissez-faire -- это конёк именно неолибералов, у неоконов же отношение к свободному рынку скорее гегельянское. Неоконы старательно озвучивали теорию превентивной войны, но, когда пришло время, их оттёрли ставленники военно-промышленного комплекса и транснациональных корпораций. Именно они и взялись за тотальную приватизацию Ирака.
